SEMESTER 1: WORLD HISTORY FINAL REVIEW
1. What is the Paleolithic Age?
2. Why were people during the Paleolithic Period nomadic?
3. Which Hominid controlled and used fire to survive?
4. What hominid subspecies does modern man belong?
5. What is the most important outcome of the
Neolithic Age?
6. What are the 5 elements of a civilization?
7. What is the difference between anthropology and archaeology?
8. Define the concept of Pre-history?
9. King Hammurabi is important for his laws, explain?
10. What are the 3 periods of Egypt?
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11. Who was the 1st King of Egypt?
12. What was the 1st Monotheistic religion in the world?
13. What is a Theocracy?
14. Which civilization gave us the alphabet?
15. Who was King Solomon?
16. Why is Alexander the Great so important in history?
17. What was Buddha’s birth name?
18. What did Buddha explain as the cause of suffering?
19. Ancient India was developed by the Aryans. Who were the first people to develop India?
20. What is the ultimate understanding of life (a communion of the physical body and Brahman)?
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21. What was the Iliad and the Odyssey?
22. What is a Greek Polis?
23. What Greek city state Government was an Oligarchy?
24. What historical event, that took place on top of a mountain, honored the Gods of Greece?
25. What is a period of Pax Romana?
26. Why was Julius Caesar murdered?
27. Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor?
28. Who was the Prophet Muhammad?
29. What is Shari’a Law, the law of the Islamic world?
30. What is the Hajj?
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31. What is the Night Journey?
32. What are the 3 Holiest cities for the Muslims?
33. Name of the largest desert on Earth?
34. Which African King brought Islam to Africa?
35. What major comodity came from Africa and helped develop America?
36. What were some technological developments in Ancient China?
37. Which Chinese Dynasty was responsible for starting and completing the Wall of China?
38. What is the significance of the Forbidden City?
39. Which Dynasty began with Ghenghis Kahn?
40. What is Chivalry as it relates to Medieval Times?
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41. Who is William the Conqueror?
42. Why was the MagnaCarta created?
43. How were Spain’s two powerful Kingdoms united?
44. What were the Inquisitions?
45. Who was the most powerful absolute monarch in Europe, during the 17th century?
46. Who is Joan de Arc?
47.Which Meso-American civilizations were destroyed by the Spanish Conquistadors?
48. How did Cortez capture the Aztec King Montezuma and make the people slaves.
49. What factors led to the distruction of the Incan Empire?
50. What is the 95 thesis posted by Martin Lurther?
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51. Who is credited for circumnavigating the world?
52. Who is credited for discovering Florida and the U.S.?
53. Why is Leonardo DaVinci referred to as the “Renaissance Man”?
54. What does “Renaissance” mean?
55. What were the differing points between Calvin and Luther about the Protestant religion?
56. What Absolute Monarch ruled during the greatest cultural period in England?
57. What was Mercantilism?
58. What is the middle passage of the Triangular trade?
59. Who were the monarchs of France who lost their heads?
60. Who was the most Catholic King?
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61. What is Absolutism?
62. What is the Edict of Nantes?
63. What happened to Germany after the end of the Thirty Years’ War?
64. What did Copernicus bring to science?
65. What invention was used to swiftly kill enemies of France?
66. What did John Locke believe about Government?
67. What was the Committee of Public Safety?
68. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
69. Who did Napoleon Overthrow when he came to be Emperor of France?
70. Who was the French politician Maximilen Robespierre?
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71. What is the Declaration of Rights of Man?
72. How did the Russians defeat Napoleon’s Grand Army?
73. What happened when Napoleon returned after being Exiled the 1st time?
74. Why did the American Colonists’ declare independence from England?
75. What Revolution was the most influential in modern History?
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POST WAR NOTES (WWI BOOKLET)
1. Amendment 18th - Alcohol was forbidden or abolished in the U.S. Jan 16th 1919
(more drinking during this time than ever)
2. Flappers! 1920’s Roaring 20’s,
Bobbed hair, short dresses, smoked
and danced! They were the “bad
girls of the time”
3. 1930 in Flagstaff AZ, Lowell Observatory-discovered Pluto (9th planet) that has since been
removed as a planet.
4. German born Albert Einstein 1879-1955; He died in New Jersey. He worked on the Manhattan
Project that develop the Atomic Bomb, but quit and told the world he would not help destroy the
world.
5. Austrian Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939. Born in Moravia
6. John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes of Wrath; Robert Frost-Poet; Ernest Hemingway wrote Farewell
to Arms in 1929.
7. Piccasso
8. 1902 1st U.S. Movie Theater in Los Angeles and the price was 10cents. Nickelodeon was 5 cents.
9. Tango, Benny Goodman’s Band; Rag Bands, Jazz, Turkey trot dance
10. Stock Market Crash of 1929 – Stocks that were phony or lost value were bought by shareholders
and they lost all their life savings. Suicide was the final consequence to many.
11. Drought “Dirty 30’s” Great Depression, Dust Bowl due to failure to rotate crops!! Kansas, Texas,
and Oklahoma
12. Recovery Plan-Recovery of the Great Depression; TVA, Corp of Engineers, Hoover Dam; SEC
(stock exchange commission.
13. Modern Regimes; State regulates every aspect of public and private life and behavior. “Fascism
and Communism”
14. The state promotes legal separation; 2 level legal system; 1 Gov for the money makers and
another set of rules for the poor
Denies class wars; Economic motive was heroism.
15. 1932 Benito Mussolini – Ally of Hitler
16. Adolf Hitler
17. Brown Shirts
18. Joseph Stalin
19. 5 yr plan owned and controlled by Stalin’s government (agriculture program using peasants)
20. Genocide 1935 “The Great Terror” Destroying and political opposition. Enemies of the Party,
underground Terrorist Group 10 million killed Worst Genocide in 20th century.
Trotsky v Stalin (1924) Trotsky exiled to Argentina
Stalin’s Collectivism – we all work and share the profits. His 5 yr plan…Stalin took the profits and the
workers were left in poverty.
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WORLD WAR 1 BOOKLET NOTES
COVER OF BOOKLET - WRITE 1914-1918 THE GREAT WAR
U.S. SOLDIERS - "DOUGHBOYS"
SECTION 1:
Cover page: Attach cutout titled “Alliance”
1914-1918
Alliances are enemies bound by resources or money
Page 2: Attach paper strip titled “Nationalism”
READ and SQR3!!!!
Page 3: Attach Western Alliance cutout/answer ADD THE NOTES BELOW THE CUTOUT
Triple Entente is a French word that means agreement (changed to Allied Powers)
Russia, France and Great Britain (came from the treaty from the Franco-Prussian War
Allied Powers – Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, U.S. Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Japan, Greece,
Portugal (42,188,810 troops)
Page 5: Attach Eastern Alliance cutout/answer
Triple Alliance (changed to Central Powers in 1914)
Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy (treaty in 1882)
Italy switched sides and the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers (22,850,000 Troops)
(Turks/Persia)
Page 7: Attach cutout “terms” – Define terms/next pg.
Cut out all alliance boxes – IN ORDER and attach on each page.
SECTION 2:
Cover page: “Fronts and People” Draw a small diagram of
two trenches with the no man’s land shown in between.
Page 1: map (color the 2 sides, Allied v. Central Powers) ONLY USE 2 DIFFERENT LIGHT COLORED
MARKERS.
Page 2. Western Front – 500+ mile long trench stretching along France’s border with Belgium and
Germany; unbroken line from Switzerland to north sea. Stayed the same for 4 years.
Page 3. Eastern Front stretched from the North Sea to Ottoman Empire (Turks).
Page 4. People cutout/attach
Picture facts: NOT IN ORDER
• Gavrilo Princip – Serbian Terrorist “Black Hand” age 19. Shot Austria-Hungary Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife Sophia (arrested, beat and hung after trial)
• Woodrow Wilson – U.S. President who asked Congress to declare War. “Wilson’s 14 Points”
• David George – Prime Minister of England during WWI.
• Lawrence of Arabia – British officer/soldier who fought the Turks in Arabia. He defended Makah
and helped keep the Ottoman Empire from overtaking Arabia.
• George Clemenceau – French Prime Minister in charge during WWI.
• Czar Nicholas II – Last Czar of Russia. He got Russia into WWI and reason for the Russian
Revolution/Communist.
• Grigori Rasputin – Russia “Mystic” who befriended the Czar Nicholas II family when he could heal
their sick son who had hemophiliac. The Bolsheviks arrested, poisoned, beat, shot in the head,
stabbed and thrown in the Moscow River. He dragged himself out, but later died. “womanizer,
strange, un-kept, gold digger”.
• Alexander Kerensky – Politician/Communist who governed Russia when the Czar was arrested.
He did not stop WWI and betrayed Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Exiled to Europe.
• Joseph Stalin – Communist/Bolshevik who led the Russian Revolution with Lenin and Trotsky.
Lenin’s “hench man” Bully/hitman.
• Alfred von Shlieffen – Created the war plan for the 1st battle of WWI “Battle of Marne”.
• Manfred von Richthofen – German flying ACE Pilot
• Admiral Holtzendorff – Told the Kaiser “U.S. will never set foot on Europe Continent”. Confident
Admiral of U-Boat command.
• Erich von Ludendorff - German General who gained almost total control over the German armies
towards the end of the First World War
• Otto von Bismarck – 1st Chancellor of Germany (Iron Chancellor); Re-united Germany. Lutheran
(anti-Catholic). Overthrown by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II – Head of the German government after he forced Otto von Bismarck out. He
abdicated when Germany was losing. Abandoned his country.
SECTION 3:
Cover Page: "War plans and Battle"
Page 1. Attach Cutout/Militarism (READ AND SQR3)
Page 2: Shlieffen Plan was a German War Plan by General Alfred Schlieffen in 1905, 9 years earlier
than WWI 1914. Plan made if Russia attacked Germany.
Plan was later used to invade France and take Paris by crossing through Belgium and Holland and take
2 weeks. “battle of Marne” Sept. 5, 1914.
Plan failed, and French pushed back German army 50 miles back.
Page 3. “Battle of Marne” 1st battle of WWI at the town of Marne, France; 5 days of fighting. Paris was
saved and Germans forced to retreat. Later, Hitler vowed to take Paris in WWII because of this
incident.
Page 4. Race to the Sea – Western Front propaganda campaign. Who could control and command the
North Sea. “Naval competition”.
Page 5. Battle of Tanenberg 1914- Germany’s most victorious battle in WWI. Ended Russian invasion
of East Prussia (part of German Empire).
Page 6. Battle of Verdun (France) – Dec. 1915- Dec. 19th, 1916 6 Phases. Bloodiest Battle of WWI.
Over1 and ½ million casualties.
Page 7. Battle of Somme (France) – 1916 French attack the Germans. 2nd Bloodiest battle of WWI.
Over 1 million casualties.
Page 7. Sinking of the Lusitania 1915 and many U.S. commercial ships by German U-boats.
Unrestricted Warfare.
Page 8. Zimmerman telegram is the final act that led the U.S. to enter WWI in 1917. A German
diplomat sent a secret telegram to Mexico asking them to join the Central Powers in exchange for
help to re capture Texas, N. Mexico and Arizona. Intercepted Telegram. Violated Monroe Doctrine and
U.S. security. Germans were sinking commercial and passenger U.S. and ally ships. Naval aggression
added to the decision.
Page 9. Russian Front and Russian Revolution
1917 Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Kerensky. 1918 Czar Nicholas II abdicated (forced) and the “Reds”
Communist took over Russia.
WWI had ended at this point on the Eastern Front. 25% of Russian Soldiers had no shoes, clothes,
horses or weapons. Stalin takes control.
Page 10. Nov. 11, 1918 11:00am the Germans sign the Armistice “truce only”.
9 million soldiers dead on all sides
13+million civilians dead
Increased world instability, World starvation, disease, displacement, death; Economic downfall.
Germany was broke and crushed. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and fled.
Page 11. 1919 Treaty of Versailles (Paris)
Paris Peace conference (Big Four) Italy, France, G. Britain and U.S.
Only 5 of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points or positions were adopted.
Charge Germany with all War damage and debt. Take all their colonies and coalmines in the Rhine.
Take complete blame for the War.
Led to WWII because of the Treaty of Versaille and HITLER’S charismatic/powerful leadership and his
NAZI PARTY.
SECTION 4:
COVER PAGE: Weapons and New Technology
Add information to appropriate sections. Write on or near pictures or place in 3rd section if needed.
• Mustard Gas (French 1st developed) – yellow/green gas in cylinders. Blindness, torn lungs,
choking, blistering, vomiting, death. Large Bells were rung to warn of gas attacks. Gas masks only had
15 min. of clean air. Masks used on horses and dogs. Gas was improved by Germans to kill 24 hours
after exposure. World outlawed gas at Treaty of Versailles.
• Airplanes – German and French, open cockpit.
German plans “Albatross, Flaming coffins”.
No Brakes and gas under seat. Machine mounted so that pilot could pull lever to shoot while flying.
Used over “NO MAN’S LAND”.
• TRENCH WARFARE – no side ever won the WAR. Trenches were over 500 miles long; 4 miles to 1
and ½ yards between. “No man’s land” was the area between trenches. Dec. 24-25th 1918 French
and German soldiers ceased fire and celebrated Christmas in the no man’s land. Exchanged gifts,
food, drink around a decorated tree. Never happened again.
• Naval Warfare – U-boats! Used to sink any ship they deemed enemy to Germany. Sank a British
passenger ship (20 min.) in 1915 “Lusitania”. It was carrying ammunitions for allies from New York.
1200 killed (123 Americans). President Woodrow Wilson warned Germany to cease acts of aggression.
• Names of weapons used in WWI (locate and identify on Pics)
Trenches
German Albatross and British Fokker planes
Flamethrowers
Grenades
Mines
Machine guns
Canons and ground to air artillery
Rifles
Bayonets
German masks and gas warfare
Gas Cylinders
Armored Tanks (British invented and 1st used 1st in the Battle of Somme) slow “metal death traps”